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aswagger en · ADV

Etymology

From a- + swagger.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
    • Crisp little men aswagger with assets. 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570:
    • [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips, 1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276:
    • The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword. 2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191:
    • he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest 1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55: